Worldwide sales for application server software grew nearly 6 percent in 2005 to $4.5 billion, according to new research from IDC that analyzed potential growth, as well as potential slowdowns in the market for software that makes applications run.
IBM was the overall application server software platform leader in 2005 with 43 percent of the market share, followed by BEA and Oracle at 17.5 percent and 11 percent, respectively.
BEA led the $2.5 billion market for distributed application server software, which refers to platforms built on J2EE, .NET, or Windows programming languages, with 24.2 percent of the market.
